The best chocolatiers Franche-Comté

Éclat de Chocolat delights gourmets all year round. Mickaël Martin's creations, true works of gustatory art, celebrate the high points of the year, such as Easter, Christmas and Valentine's Day. As refined as they are gourmet, they include exceptional chocolates such as these pralines in candy form, a varied range of entremets including the pistachio-strawberry-lemon opera in summer, artisanal ice creams, macaroons and small snacks, including adorable marshmallow teddies. A must for lovers of refined sweets.

Working in Roanne, where they used to rub shoulders and collaborate with the chef Pierre Troisgros, Célia and Guillaume moved to the wine capital. She, getting closer to her family bases. Their rustic shop and workshop smell good as soon as you enter, like the succulences that the chef prepares on his marbles. Confectionery, pastries and chocolates have immediately won over a tasteful public. Their flagship products: giant madeleines, the "Caramel à l'O" in partnership with Salins, marshmallows, chocolates... even ice creams in season. We are amazed.

For a career change, here's a particularly successful one. It was passion that led Philippe Vareillaud to make a radical change of profession. He now excels in the world of chocolate, and his reputation continues to grow. In terms of innovation, this year the beans will be processed on site using the Bean to Bar method. Creations such as the delicious Vin Jaune, to name just one among many, deserve a mention. In this profession, here's a name that rightly stands out. Attention connoisseurs.

Also present in Sens, Olivier Vidal, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, offers us here something to delight our taste buds. We can enjoy chocolates with orange or lemon peel. We appreciate the almond/hazelnut shortbread. We would die for the caramel coulis and the different spreads. And what can we say about the excellent pastries whose extreme finesse and great creativity have no equivalent in Auxerre, without forgetting the very tasty home-made ice creams. In summer, outside the store, the queue can be long to get one!

This house is an institution. You'll find wonderful creations like Pavé Morvandiau, Quarréen and Saint Amour. But also spreads. The waffles, too, are a delight every Sunday and public holiday, as well as in the afternoons in high season. A great address, as delicious as it is unmissable! And an online boutique that we also recommend you discover. What's more, Quarré de Chocolat recently opened a corner in Auxerre, in the gallery of the E. Leclerc center.

Les Champs du Destin is a 100% organic bakery created by Jérôme Bruet. The unusual flours and cereals are produced on village land that has been preserved for many years. An organic baker since 1994, Jérôme is brimming with projects, notably participating in development programs with Agro Sup Dijon. His laboratory also prepares a range of 14 chocolates made with lecithin-free cocoa paste and enriched with multiple cereals. Among the must-haves are the Champs du Destin beers made from organic cereals.

Dufoux chocolates is a long story that began in 1960 in Saône-et-Loire and continues in Dijon with this beautiful store located on rue des Forges. In its unmistakable window display in the colors of chocolate and Burgundy blackcurrants, the Dufoux house presents its original creations. In the store, the proposals pay tribute to the occasions for the greatest pleasure of the gourmets. Young and old alike can enjoy chocolate candies, bars bearing the famous owl and other original dark or milk chocolate items.

We're crazy about Sébastien Hénon's chocolates, gourmet treats, confectionery, creative tablets and macaroons. After a stint as a pastry chef in Lyon, this chocolatier and confectioner returns to the Côte-d'Or, where he is expanding his hand-crafted collections. A boutique is opening in Dijon, another in Plombières-les-Dijon, where he creates and runs "Chocolatez" duo and pro workshops, and a third in the center of Pommard in 2023. What a lovely boutique!

It was here, in Charolles, that (the late) Bernard Dufoux founded his first chocolate factory, in 1960. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength. In addition to its tempting boutique, the Charolles address is worth a detour for its production workshop, where chocolatiers and pastry chefs reveal the secrets of their trade to the public, and give classes. The chocolates they make are of the highest quality, using sometimes rare cocoa beans and exceptional hazelnuts and pistachios. Attractive subjects in original shapes are also produced for special events.

In Beaune, Dijon and Besançon, Fabrice Gillotte's shop windows are deliciously gourmet. This MOF chocolatier has won the hearts of chocolate lovers everywhere. A Grand Atelier in Norges-la-Ville, a blue-and-white store in Beaune, a chic, minimalist decor. Caramel-filled butters, macaroon pyramids, pure butter shortbread, soft cakes with melting hearts... everything is exquisite. For your special events, Fabrice Gillotte creates themed sculptures, from a 1.20 m-long love affair to giant mushrooms. What art!

The showcase of this artisan chocolate maker presents a direct view of the laboratory and invites you to enter a gourmet universe. Chocolates have made Christophe Ragueneau's reputation. Effectively assisted by his wife Carole, he offers you very elegantly distinguished fine chocolates and collections made in original home-made moulds. In addition to the delicious chocolates, the house also offers Italian ice cream and homemade sorbets when the weather is fine. The house is venerable and it is an address that never ceases to surprise us!

Not to be missed on rue de la Liberté, the boutique of master chocolate maker François Pralus is a delight for lovers of good chocolate. Let yourself be tempted by the delicacies of this craftsman whose professional history began in 1988. You will find chocolates from all over the world in bars or bars and of course the Praluline, an incredible pure butter brioche filled with generous crushed pralines whose recipe is secretly kept. A true ambassador for the house, it is also a real piece of Lyon gastronomy based in Dijon.

More than 60 years in the business and an unbroken passion. Mickaël Azouz was French pastry champion in 1988 and world champion in 1989. In addition to the house classics, which are often inspired by the end of the world by mixing great vintages of cocoa and coconut, lemon, jasmine or vanilla, there are always novelties: rose and sake truffles, summer chocolate with fennel or ginger... There are also the incredible truffles, the rocks, the elegant Vesoul and other orangettes. A must!

Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Olivier Vidal offers his delights near the cathedral. The store features all the chocolatier's specialities, already present in Auxerre (opposite the Cadet Roussel statue). You'll love the chocolate, of course, but you'll also love the praline brioches, macaroons and spreads. And let's not forget the absolutely delicious ice creams. Or the pastries, always of the finest quality. A true paradise for the most demanding gourmets! An excellent address.

Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Pascal Caffet, from Troy, has about fifteen shops in France and around the world, as far away as Tokyo and Milan. In Burgundy, apart from Nevers, it is in Sens that he has chosen to settle, near the covered market. Here, the specialty is praline! You can find it in the chocolates of course, but also in the pastry creations that make your mouth water at first sight: Manakara, Syracuse, Moscow and Montreal in particular for the iced desserts... We love it! And know that you can also order on the website.

A pastry cook and chocolate maker, Pascal Millot shares his passions in his Beaune's boutique where one can only come back to discover his other creations. Assisted by his wife Virginie, he makes with a team of twelve people, pastries, chocolates, ice-cream and numerous confectioneries with a great deal of technicality, precision and talent. The creations are refined. There are always novelties, unknown fruit associations, he also makes ephemeral cakes that will only exist for a weekend. Lovers of ultra classical pastry are served, and taste adventurers also. Chocolates are made with a selection of beans from all four corners of the world, which are made of 40 candies and no less than 18 references in tablets. Lovers of macaroon, fruit pasta and marshes, you will have a treat. Pascal Millot's jams are also amazing with often the association of a fruit with a spice, an herb or a flower. You also find some individual savoury tarts to satisfy your desire for salt food.

Ranked in the top 5 of our best chocolate makers, Edouard Hirsinger is the^4th generation to perpetuate this chocolate dynasty. If he is the author of many seasonal creations, he has not forgotten those of his grandfather and great-grandfather, the Galet and the Tous t'chefs. The cakes are also marvellous, such as the Arboisien, the Monaco, the Régent and the Damier (the customers' favourite). The shop is sober and chic and is spread out on a terrace in good season. With a little time, you can also visit the workshop-museum of the origins.

The Eiffel bakery and pastry shop, located opposite the Sainte-Chantal church, awakens the street with the colours of its front and the smell of warm bread. It is with all the traditional know-how of Rémi Toux that customers come to enjoy a crunchy and tasty bread. The inhabitants of the Canal district make no mistake about it and come here to buy natural croissants, chocolate breads, brioches or raisin breads. The bakery offers its customers more than thirty varieties of breads, from organic baguettes to cereal breads and delicious special breads. All are baked in the bakery while respecting traditional know-how. For breakfast, think of the Viennese style with its soft, natural crust or chocolate chips. But Remy also excels in sweet sins and thus proposes in his store, many proposals. Ovens, macaroons, chocolates for festive occasions, cakes and pastries and finally ice cream. Don't hesitate to call on the establishment for your birthday cakes and even your wedding accessories!